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RE: Vasalgel™ - The next male contraceptive?
This is a topic that recently spark hot debates in my country. MOST African men still believe that the responsibility of planning a family falls on the shoulders of a woman as she's the one who gives birth so to say. This and the fact that barrenness is also a woman's fault as men with low-sperm count deny it is their problem is something I am hoping to live to see change. For the moment, I just wish more women in Africa can embrace family planning completely (traditions still limit most of them) before wishing men would even think about male family planning leave alone embracing it themselves.
It's always an eye-opener to read comments like this from you. Living in Germany, issues like this seem incredibly far away. Nobody here (except maybe for some overly religious undereducated weirdos) would think that a man can't be the reason that a woman can't get pregnant...
This makes the problems women here deal with so different from the problems women in your country deal with.
In return, your posts give me a scale of how far we as African women have to go to change and elevate ourselves. I am proud of this far but I am also hoping we cover more ground before raising our daughters the same way we raised. Hope that makes sense.
It does! And educating your daughters (not to be sexist, but because they'll be the ones teaching their children and so on) is always the next step to guarantee a better future.